galena ohio – C.G. Boyce Real Estate Co.

Delaware County Home Sales

It was another busy week in the Delaware County Ohio real estate market with 97 valid sales taking place and accounting for nearly $28 million in transfers.

Delaware (27) and Lewis Center (20) are common communities in the top-three however Westerville was finishing up the month strong with 15 units.

Sales only include transfers that are marked as “valid sales” by the Delaware County Auditor’s office.

Delaware County Homes Sale Statistics

August 24-30, 2015

City	Units	Amount	Average
Ashley	1	$75,500	$75,500
Centerburg	2	$460,400	$230,200
Columbus	1	$186,700	$186,700
Delaware	27	$6,444,480	$238,684
Dublin	2	$755,000	$377,500
Galena	8	$3,026,363	$378,295
Johnstown	1	$75,000	$75,000
Lewis Center	20	$5,560,915	$278,046
Ostrander	1	$248,000	$248,000
Powell	11	$4,162,973	$378,452
Sunbury	8	$1,926,066	$240,758
Westerville	15	$5,049,197	$336,613
Total	97	$27,970,594	$288,356.64

Click on the community name to get a listing of homes sold in that community during the past week.

Memorial Day Events Around Delaware County

Delaware Ohio Memorial Day Weekend — There are numerous events taking place around Delaware County on this Memorial Day weekend.

Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start of summer and a chance for Americans to honor those that made it possible for this great nation to be what it is.

It is extremely hard to figure out where the tradition began but General John Logan in May 1865 was among the first to put out a call for nationalization of America’s war dead.

Delaware County continues that tradition this year with many communities continuing the tradition honoring those that have given their life for the American cause.

We cherish too, the Poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led,
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies.

Sunday, May 27, 2012

Delaware, 3 p.m., Soldiers Circle, Oak Grove Cemetery

Monday, May 28, 2012

Radnor, 8 a.m., Breakfast at Radnor United Church of Christ; 10 a.m., Parade ends at Cemetery for ceremony, Hog roast to follow by Radnor Fire Department at Community Center
Plain City, 9 a.m., parade, elementary school to Bigelow Cemetery
Westerville, 9:45 a.m., parade from the corner of State Street and College Avenue, pause at the old National Guard Armory on State, then proceed to Otterbein Cemetery
Powell, 10 am., Parade followed by memorial ceremony at Greater Powell Veterans Memorial.
Sunbury, 10 a.m., Parade, J.R. Smith Park
Dublin, 11 a.m., procession from Bridge Pointe Center to Dublin Cemetery with wreath-throwing ceremony on the Bridge Street bridge. 11:30 a.m., ceremony at Dublin Cemetery. Noon, commemoration at Grounds of Remembrance in Veterans Park with speaker Alex Rozanski, military veteran and brother of Capt. Nicholas Rozanski, an Ohio National Guardsman killed in Afghanistan in April. 12:30 p.m., free picnic lunch on the grounds of the Dublin Library.
Galena, 1 p.m., Village Square

So thank a veteran today for giving some – or better yet – get out to one of these events and honor those veterans that gave it all during a war.

Ice Cream Social in Galena

Galena, Ohio, will host an ice cream social on Sunday, August 29, from 6-8 p.m. at Ruffner Park.

Ruffner Park is located at 183 Harrison Street in Galena, Ohio.

Waiting For Your Return

Bobber in Water, Galena, Ohio — The fish may not be biting, but the bobber awaits your return (toby boyce)

Where did you go?

Did the cell phone ring? Did your mom call you home?

Wherever you went, your bobber is still marking your spot on the Hoover Reservoir in Galena, Ohio.

Just awaiting your return.

check out more items from the Pier on DelawareOH365

Have You Seen Huck Finn?

While I was filming and photographing in Galena, Ohio, for the DelawareOH365.com piece on the pier, I stumbled across this.

It is probably a fence section that was washed out during a previous high-water moment of the Hoover Reservoir. But, my imagination quickly took me back to Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Then thinking about Twain always brings back a quote from his auto-biography that I’ve used often in my life:

Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities which we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are the men who do things which we recognize with regret and sometimes with a secret shame that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself there would be no heroes.